151.	View Larger Image	Twelve Kingdoms - Chapter 10 - Reverie Director: Tsuneo Kobayashi
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152.		Uzumaki Director: Higuchinsky
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153.	View Larger Image	Napoleon Director: Mario Andreacchio
		From Amazon.com This live-action feature follows the adventures of a golden retriever puppy who chafes under his given name of "Muffin" (much preferring his own choice of "Napoleon") and who travels through the Australian outback in search of his canine roots. Plopping, as puppies will do, into a basket suspended by balloons one day, Napoleon drifts from the home of his mother and ... more Buy from Amazon

154.	View Larger Image	Digimon - The Movie Directors: Minoru Hosoda, Mamoru Hosoda, Shigeyasu Yamauchi
		From Amazon.com Like the similar Pokémon craze, the animated Digimon TV series has spawned a full-length theatrical film. The two phenomena are similar: kids collect monsters and go on adventures. While Pokémon has a sense of odyssey and a wisp of a moral, Digimon is flat-out rough-and-tumble adventure. Can an adult figure out the digi-details of the digi-world? Here's a digi-shot. That world ... more Buy from Amazon

155.	View Larger Image	Barefoot Gen Director: Mori Masaki
		From Amazon.com Keiji Nakazawa attracted widespread attention in 1973, when he published the first installment of his semiautobiographical manga (comics), Barefoot Gen. Nakazawa was 6 years old in August 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Most of his family was killed in the blast, and the artist survived through sheer luck. Nakazawa's continuing story now fills seven volumes (nearly 2,000 ... more Buy from Amazon

156.	View Larger Image	Dragon Ball Z - Bardock: The Father of Goku Actor: Dragon Ball Z
		From Amazon.com Bardock was one of the Saiya-jin Frieza used as mercenaries to conquer other worlds. Although he was only a "low-level" warrior, Bardock grew so powerful that Frieza and his lieutenant Doodoria feared he might become a threat to them. Doodoria brutally murdered the other members of Bardock's squadron; Frieza destroyed the entire Saiya planet--Vegeta, Nappa, and Goku (né Kakarot) were the ... more Buy from Amazon

157.	View Larger Image	Dersu Uzala Actors: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin Director: Akira Kurosawa
		From Amazon.com essential video During an unusual chapter in the career of director Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon), the filmmaker went to Russia because he found working in his native Japan to be too difficult. The result was this striking 1975 near-epic based on the turn-of-the-century autobiographical novels of a military explorer (Yuri Solomin) who met and befriended a Goldi man in Russia's unmapped forests. Kurosawa traces ... more Buy from Amazon

158.	View Larger Image	Patlabor 2 Director: Mamoru Oshii
		From Amazon.com Labors are giant construction robots piloted by humans, and the Patlabor team is a mobile police force whose job is to protect the population from people who might hijack or sabotage these powerful tools. Though events of the first movie called Labor technology into question, the needs of big business outweighed the concerns of citizens, and eventually they came back into ... more Buy from Amazon

159.	View Larger Image	Hanzo the Razor Actor: Shintaro Katsu
		From Amazon.com Are you a fan of samurai films, but wish they were somehow...dirtier? Welcome to the deranged world of Hanzo the Razor, a weird blend of swordplay and sexploitation. The first Hanzo movie, Sword of Justice, came out a year after Shaft and Dirty Harry and fuses the influence of both: stout and surly Hanzo (Shintaro Katsu), a rebellious yet obsessively moral ... more Buy from Amazon

160.	View Larger Image	Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla 1974 Actors: Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama Director: Jun Fukuda
		From Amazon.com For Godzilla's 20th anniversary, Japanese film company Toho reinvented the series once again. Mixing science fiction (with a rather obvious nod to the Planet of the Apes series), mythological fantasy, and secret-agent intrigue, this 1974 entry begins with the startling image of Godzilla doing battle with himself! Actually it's a towering robot juggernaut unleashed by black-blooded ape-men invaders from outer space. ... more Buy from Amazon